From atsnipes at ncsu.edu Tue Jun 8 22:38:20 2010 From: atsnipes at ncsu.edu (Aaron Snipes) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:38:20 -0400 Subject: [PythonCE] Running Python code on Windows CE x86 (not ARM) Message-ID: Hi all, I'm an intern and a python newbie. At work we're having a difficult time compiling python code so that it can be run on windows CE on an x86 machine. I have heard talk (in forums) of a "Python CE port for Windows CE.Net 5.0 x86 processor" which originally manipulated PythonCE-2.5-20061219-source.zip . This was then linked and compiled using Microsoft Visual 2005. I'm unable to find this manipulated version of pythonCE however. Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Aaron Snipes atsnipes at Ncsu.edu From atsnipes at ncsu.edu Thu Jun 10 03:34:49 2010 From: atsnipes at ncsu.edu (Aaron Snipes) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:34:49 -0400 Subject: [PythonCE] May Have Been Unclear Before Message-ID: I think I may have been a little unclear before. From what I'm aware of, all of pythonCE is written for the target to be the ARM processors. Our goal is to make .exe files from .py files that will be compatible and run on Windows CE with a x86 intel processor. I also have successfully compiled some of the c code (other code we will need for the drivers of our product) using minw32ce for the targets x86 processor running CE for the same reasons. Thanks, Aaron From atsnipes at ncsu.edu Tue Jun 15 21:38:48 2010 From: atsnipes at ncsu.edu (Aaron Snipes) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PythonCE] Running Python code on Windows CE x86 (not ARM) References: Message-ID: To add to my last post: ================================================================================ From my research I've noticed that their isn't a big "need" for this compiler. I have used a C/C++ compiler for Windows CE (the i386-mingw32ce compiler) which successfully compiled some of our other C code for the device. We then assumed another direction may be to find a Python-to-C or Python-to-Java compiler and then compile the interpreted code for our target x86 device. I have tried ShedSkin, a Python-to-C++ compiler, but it has many problems compiling the code (it had problems with the ctypes library for example). This tells me that an approach may be to "interpret Python into another language and then compile that language for Windows CE x86" . I hope I haven't bothered you but any direction would be greatly appreciated! I'm also installing Visual 2005 and Windows CE 6.0. I've heard talk that their may be tool Any direction would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Aaron Snipes atsnipes at Ncsu.edu